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MUTANTS of Staphylococcus aureus with impaired respiration were originally obtained under the action of ultra-violet radiation1, and as they differed in a number of important characters from the parent strain it was of interest to develop a simple method for their detection and to measure the frequency of appearance of these mutants in the parent culture under various conditions.
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GAUSE, G., KOCHETKOVA, G. & SORBAEVA, N. Rate of Appearance of Mutants with Respiration-deficiency in Staphylococci . Nature 184, 1821–1822 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841821b0
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